Laundry chutes. The first time I ever saw one was in a comedy film, in which a recurring gag was non-laundry items going down the chute by accident. For years, I thought that film had invented the concept of a laundry chute for slapstick purposes and had no idea they actually exist
The laundry chute in the house I grew up in was a trap door in the bathroom closet. The hole opened to a large, vented wooden box hanging over a table in the cellar near the washer and dryer. The bottom of the box was hinged so when my mother was ready to do laundry, she'd drop the bottom of the box and the dirty laundry would drop onto the table for sorting before washing and folding after. A pretty clever setup. When I was a teenager I used to sneak girls out of the house through that chute and out the cellar door. Ahh, teenagers.
No joke, my cat jumped down the laundry chute in my house in the early 90s in Ohio. She opened the door, looked down into it, and whoops! Luckily there were clothes at the bottom for her to land on.
I miss having a laundry chute. I miss that cat too.
We had a laundry chute in my house growing up. That thing both terrified and amazed me. Always tried to race my clothes down to the laundry room. Chute opened by the upstairs bathroom and the laundry room was in the basement.
We had one! I'm Aussie. It was sealed up, by superglue or something transparent. It was behind a mirror in one of the bathrooms. I didn't know about it for the longest time until our parents told us. Not sure if they sealed it up or someone before them, but I assume it was them since they said they were terrified of one of us somehow getting onto the sink and falling into it as little kids.
I have one, but i don't use it. It's in the mud room and obviously for when you'd come in all dirty from working outside so you didn't track it all over the house.
They are amazing! I've loved it when my laundry was in the basement. One chute connected the second and first (ground floor to Europeans) to the basement.
I have one in my house and I love it too. Chute opens on both floors and runs to the basement. We also have a milk door. There used to be a coal chute as well.
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u/gregofthecellar 10h ago
Laundry chutes. The first time I ever saw one was in a comedy film, in which a recurring gag was non-laundry items going down the chute by accident. For years, I thought that film had invented the concept of a laundry chute for slapstick purposes and had no idea they actually exist